If you don't use any locktype, it uses adLockReadOnly by default. Try this:

Code:

objRS.Open "pressrelease", objConn, adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic

Sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land. Plumes of smoke rise, merge into the leaden sky. A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers, but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking. He's haunted by the memory of lost paradise. In his youth or dream, he can't be precise. He's chained forever to a world that's departed. It's not enough, it's not enough.Gilmour